I want to make some planters out of treated wood. Is there any treatment
that I should avoid?

TIA

Dave

dave wrote:
I want to make some planters out of treated wood. Is there any
treatment that I should avoid?

I've made quite a few planters out of tanalised deck boards - no problems.


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"dave" wrote in message
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I want to make some planters out of treated wood. Is there any treatment
that I should avoid?

TIA
Dave

It's a good idea to line them with old grow-bag plastic bags or similar, so
as to minimise direct contact with the wood - and mean less watering. Old
fence boards and ship lap loaded with old black creosote make particularly
effective planters. A lot of plants - particularly the cabbage family - are
actually bioaccumulations of toxic metals, so, it would not be advisable to
use this for edible crops (Mind you, if we are talking raised bed sized
planters most of the plants would probably be far enough away from the sides
for this only to be a remote toxicity problem.).

S

On 16/06/2010 19:14, The Medway Handyman wrote:
dave wrote:
I want to make some planters out of treated wood. Is there any
treatment that I should avoid?

I've made quite a few planters out of tanalised deck boards - no problems.

Thanks Dave, that is what I am looking at.

Dave